A service that helps monitoring Windows based applications, specially .net.
In an environment full of application tiers, where distributed applications talk to each oder almost in a streamlined way, it is indispensable having a tool that helps to monitor all these integrations. For that matter we can count on an Application Performance Management - APM. We have very good APM choices out there on Internet but unfortunately, for .net running in Windows, one must to pay very high costs for licences. That is why I decided to build servicedog. It will be free and opensource. Forever.
Let's start with an official service dog definition in the USA:
Service animals are defined as dogs that are individually trained to do work or perform tasks for people with disabilities. Examples of such work or tasks include guiding people who are blind, alerting people who are deaf, pulling a wheelchair, alerting and protecting a person who is having a seizure, reminding a person with mental illness to take prescribed medications, calming a person with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) during an anxiety attack, or performing other duties...
Notice how this is paired with our sytems environment: usually systems have a perception that something is wrong, normally they record the problem, but they are rarely designed to adequately address such problems. Our systems have some disabilities that someone else needs to address, just like a service dog does. Sometimes he just need to warn a medical center, call someone's attention or take some medicine to it´s "patient".
Gathering such problems is totally based on Event Tracing Windows (ETW) infrastructure and dependent on Microsoft TraceEvent Library.